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The band's publicist, Heather Lylis, said Travers died Wednesday at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut.
Bandmate Peter Yarrow said that in her final months, Travers handled her declining health with bravery and generosity, showing her love to friends and family "with great dignity and without restraint."
"It was, as Mary always was, honest and completely authentic," he said. "That's the way she sang, too - honestly and with complete authenticity."
Noel "Paul" Stookey, the trio's other member, praised Travers for her inspiring activism, "especially in her defense of the defenseless."
"I am deadened and heartsick beyond words to consider a life without Mary Travers and honored beyond my wildest dreams to have shared her spirit and her career," he said.
Mary Allin Travers was born on Nov. 9, 1936, in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of journalists who moved the family to Manhattan's bohemian Greenwich Village. She quickly became enamored with folk performers like the Weavers and was soon performing with Pete Seeger, a founding member of the Weavers who lived in the same building as the Travers family.
With a group called the Song Swappers, Travers backed Seeger on one album and two shows at Carnegie Hall. She also appeared (as one of a group of folk singers) in a short-lived 1958 Broadway show called "The Next President," starring comedian Mort Sahl.
It wasn't until she met up with Yarrow and Stookey that Travers would taste success on her own. Yarrow was managed by Albert B. Grossman, who later worked in the same capacity for Bob Dylan.
In the book "Positively 4th Street" by David Hajdu, Travers recalled that Grossman's strategy was to "find a nobody that he could nurture and make famous."
The budding trio, boosted by the arrangements of Milt Okun, spent seven months rehearsing in her Greenwich Village apartment before their 1961 public debut at the Bitter End.
Their beatnik look - a tall blonde flanked by a pair of goateed guitarists - was a part of their initial appeal. As The New York Times critic Robert Shelton put it not long afterward, "Sex appeal as a keystone for a folk-song group was the idea of the group's manager ... who searched for months for `the girl' until he decided on Miss Travers."
The trio mingled their music with liberal politics, both onstage and off. Their version of "If I Had a Hammer" became an anthem for racial equality. Other hits included "Lemon Tree," "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and "Puff (The Magic Dragon.)"
They were early champions of Dylan and performed his "Blowin' in the Wind" at the March on Washington in August 1963.
And they were vehement in their opposition to the Vietnam War, managing to stay true to their liberal beliefs while creating music that resonated in the American mainstream.
The group collected five Grammy Awards for their three-part harmony on enduring songs like "Leaving on a Jet Plane," "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" and "Blowin' in the Wind."
At one point in 1963, three of their albums were in the top six Billboard best-selling LPs as they became the biggest stars of the folk revival movement.
It was heady stuff for a trio that had formed in the early 1960s in Greenwich Village, running through simple tunes like "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
Their debut album came out in 1962, and immediately scored a pair of hits with their versions of "If I Had a Hammer" and "Lemon Tree." The former won them Grammys for best folk recording and best performance by a vocal group.
"Moving" was the follow-up, including the hit tale of innocence lost, "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" - which reached No. 2 on the charts, and generated since-discounted reports that it was an ode to marijuana.
Album No. 3, "In the Wind," featured three songs by the then-22-year-old Dylan. "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" and "Blowin' in the Wind" both reached the top 10, bringing Dylan's material to a massive audience; the latter shipped 300,000 copies during one two-week period.
"Blowin' In the Wind" became another civil rights anthem, and Peter, Paul and Mary fully embraced the cause. They marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama, and performed with him in Washington.
In a 1966 Times interview, Travers said the three worked well together because they respected one another. "There has to be a certain amount of love just in order for you to survive together," she said. "I think a lot of groups have gone down the tubes because they were not able to relate to one another."
With the advent of the Beatles and Dylan's switch to electric guitar, the folk boom disappeared. Travers expressed disdain for folk-rock, telling the Chicago Daily News in 1966 that "it's so badly written. ... When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers."
But the trio continued their success, scoring with the tongue-in-cheek single "I Dig Rock and Roll Music," a gentle parody of the Mamas and the Papas, in 1967 and the John Denver-penned "Leaving on a Jet Plane" two years later.
They also continued as boosters for young songwriters, recording numbers written by then-little-known Gordon Lightfoot and Laura Nyro.
In 1969, the group earned their final Grammy for "Peter, Paul and Mommy," which won for best children's album. They disbanded in 1971, launching solo careers - Travers released five albums - that never achieved the heights of their collaborations.
Over the years they enjoyed several reunions, including a performance at a 1978 anti-nuclear benefit organized by Yarrow and a 35th anniversary album, "Lifelines," with fellow folkies Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Dave Van Ronk and Seeger. A boxed set of their music was released in 2004.
They remained politically active as well, performing in 1995 on the anniversary of the Kent State shootings and performing for California strawberry pickers.
Travers had undergone a successful bone marrow transplant to treat her leukemia and was able to return to performing after that.
"It was like a miracle," Travers told The Associated Press in 2006. "I'm just feeling fabulous. What's incredible is someone has given your life back. I'm out in the garden today. This time last year I was looking out a window at a hospital." She also said she told the marrow donor "how incredibly grateful I was."
But by mid-2009, Yarrow told WTOP radio in Washington that her condition had worsened again and he thought she would no longer be able to perform.
Travers lived for many years in Redding, Connecticut She is survived by her husband, Ethan Robbins, and daughters, Alicia and Erika.
Associated Press writer Polly Anderson and AP Music Writer Nekesa Mumbi Moody contributed to this report from New York.
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Return to Your First Love - Truth for Life - February 11, 2012
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February 11
Return to Your First Love
We will always remember that best and brightest of hours when we first saw the Lord, lost our burden, received the gift of grace, rejoiced in full salvation, and went on our way in peace. It was springtime in the soul; the winter was past; the mutterings of Sinai's thunders were hushed; the flashings of its lightnings were no more perceived; God was beheld as reconciled; the law threatened no vengeance, and justice demanded no punishment.
Then the flowers appeared in our heart. Hope, love, peace, and patience sprang from the ground; the hyacinth of repentance, the snowdrop of pure holiness, the crocus of golden faith, the daffodil of early love--all decked the garden of the soul.
The time of the singing of birds had arrived, and we rejoiced with thanksgiving; we magnified the holy name of our forgiving God, and our resolve was, "Lord, I am Yours, Yours alone. All I am, and all I have, I devote to You. You have bought me with Your blood--let me spend myself and be spent in Your service. In life and in death let me be consecrated to You."
How well have we kept this resolve? Our first love burned with a holy flame of devotion to Jesus--is it the same now? Is it possible that Jesus may say to us, "I have something against you, because you have left your first love"? Sadly we have done little for our Master's glory. Our winter has lasted all too long. We are as cold as ice when we should feel a summer's glow and bloom with sacred flowers. We give God pennies when He deserves much more, deserves our heart's blood to be coined in the service of His church and of His truth. But shall we continue in this way? O Lord, after You have blessed us so richly, shall we be ungrateful and become indifferent to Your good cause and work? Quicken us that we may return to our first love and do our first works! Send us a joyful spring, O Sun of Righteousness.
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Clinging to summer
"Ah, it's still warm," I thought. Golden sunlight cast long shadows on the streets. "And it's a beautiful evening."
I put on a long-sleeved jersey, shorts, and a thin pair of gloves, and set out toward the mountains. The subtle warmth of the low sun caressed my skin, and sweat began to bead on my forehead as I climbed Pattee Canyon. I felt particularly strong, perhaps because it had been several days since I had ridden a bicycle, or perhaps because I was finally getting into singlespeed shape. I ramped up the pace, veered right on a narrow logging road and churned up the steep gravel as twilight descended. I crested a saddle and continued climbing toward the Miller Creek Divide, as night opened the sky to an expanding spread of stars and a sliver of the moon. I felt amazing. I love to climb and climb. I'd climb into eternity if there was a mountain high enough. But the Miller Creek Divide eventually crests out and drops into a bewildering maze of logging roads, and it was there, at 8 p.m. or so, that I finally slowed to a stop.
A rush of cold air struck me like a freight train out of the darkness. I gasped and insta-frozen breath swirled in the beam of my headlamp. I shined it down on my feet and saw hints of sparkle on the grass. Was that frost? The chill needled in before I could investigate. It was cold! How did it get so suddenly cold? I opened my frame bag to confirm what I already knew - that I had failed to bring an extra layer. Because it was summer, right? No, no it wasn't summer. The temperature was near freezing and plummeting. And there was nothing I could do but descend 3,500 feet of elevation - on a spun-out singlespeed, no less - into the frigid night.
Unpleasant would be a kind word I could use to describe that descent. I tucked into my handlebars if only to glean off my own body heat, and dropped into black canyon. My dim light turned the gravel road into a flicker of shapes and shadows as the icy wind stung my bare legs. My fingers lost sensation first, then my toes, and then the windchill worked its way into my arms, legs, and finally butt. I am blessed with what I think is uncommonly good heat retention in my core - especially in dry cold - so I managed to stave off shivering. But my limbs were for all practical purposes frozen. I was a statue on a bicycle, a blur in the dark night with only the tears in my eyes to reveal any sign of life.
By the time I reached the bottom of the canyon, I still had to pedal home, but my legs absolutely refused to move. My hands were so numb that when I went to adjust my helmet strap, I found it completely impossible to even unbuckle it, so I just placed the frozen stumps back on my handlebars and strained to push every ounce of warm blood I still had in my core toward my legs, on the off chance I still had muscles to move. I wasn't sure, because I certainly couldn't feel them. I creaked robot-like toward home, then fumbled with my keys for nearly 10 minutes just to get the door unlocked. After that came the shower of much punishment: 10 minutes of hot agony as the thousand invisible needles pricked my skin back to life, followed by 10 more minutes of numb recovery, still trying to make rigid fingers work.
Ah, the early season. Have to respect the annual lesson in the importance of warm clothing.
But the truth is, it's been difficult for me to accept that Missoula has any other seasons besides summer. When I moved here, summer had just begun, both literally (it was June 21) and figuratively (the long spring rains finally let up, and haven't really come back since.) It's been four months of sunshine and long evening rides and warm nights. I can't even really imagine Missoula any other way. Until Monday, cold nights seemed to be a long way off. Winter felt like another lifetime.
Then I woke up this morning to thick frost on the grass and porch, and I knew it was probably time to start saying so long to the summer, for real this time.
But not yet. Not quite yet. Tuesday was Dave's last night in town. He, Bill and I rode up the Lincoln Hills and worked our way up to a particularly challenging series of singletrack trails called the Larch and Sidewinder families. We climbed into fading light and dropped into expanding darkness, losing the rest of the twilight to a 20-minute stop to saw a fallen tree in half. I launched into the darkness with wide eyes. All the obstacles seemed more insurmountable, the trees more foreboding. I struggled with this trail when it was still summer, and with the early night, my headlamp cast it in a new, even eerier light. The air was still, the temperatures falling, and the city lights of Missoula sparkled like a sea below us. But my apprehension began to diminish as I tucked into the turns. I smiled with the warmth of my fledgling confidence, because I've experienced much in the past four months, and those are the remnants of summer that will never fade.
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Did a similar thing myself this morning. Bright sunshine like the last few mornings, so shorts, mitts and short sleeve shirt. After half a mile I was frozen, it was actually about 5 degrees colder than yesterday, first frost of the season. What I'm really not looking forward to is the clocks changing next week, dark by 6PM!
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Sounds like Missoula has about gotten you acclimated to singletrack. When are you going clipless?
Jim G. Jim, I keep vowing to give clipless another try, but at this point, certainly not before winter. Tis the season of burly boots and many socks.
I think the 30x20 will be a perfect gear for ice biking. It's nearly time to get the studded Nokians out, put the Larry tires on Pugsley, and gear up for the best season of the year. Yeah, winter.


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Robert Griffin III's burgundy shirt read: "No Pressure. No Diamonds".
The Heisman Trophy knows it is not quite that simple. Not for a quarterback in position to start for the Washington Redskins after being selected second overall in the NFL draft.
He still put up a pretty good argument before the Redskins open training camp.
"I was more anxious, maybe a little nervous for mini-camp and OTAs," Griffin said, "I've been through the offence, got a taste for how fast the game is and just what I need to do as a quarterback to help this team win. I feel a lot more comfortable.
"It's actually more relaxing. There's nothing going on outside of football. It's all smiles in the locker room. In the short time, we've built great relationships."
Some of that relationship building happened in Waco, Texas, in late June when Griffin welcomed the receivers Santana Moss, Pierre Garcon, Anthony Armstrong, Brandon Banks and the tight end Fred Davis to work out with him at Baylor.
"Throwing with the guys over the break, you can see who's truly dedicated and who you have to continue to stay on," Griffin said.
"We went twice a day. I wanted those guys to get a feel for who I was. It's best to just show them sometimes ... go through a workout with the Baylor team, see how we worked.
"I thought it was very productive as far as throwing and as far as being able to bond."
Griffin has done commercials for several companies including Adidas and Gatorade, but he does not necessarily buy into the fact that he is face of the franchise as a 22 year old who yet to take an NFL snap.
"Maybe they might not have accepted me as their leader yet, but they definitely see me as a guy that can help," Griffin said.
"[They] don't look at me as a celebrity. Yeah, I'm the quarterback, the guy that's going to lead them to victory, [but] I'm not RGIII to them. I'm just Robert. I don't think you can be approachable if they think you feel you're larger than life. You got to be real with them."
The four-year deal for a little over US$21 million (Dh71m) in fully guaranteed money that Griffin signed just over a week ago is real, too. So are the two new cars he was given by sponsors.
"It was definitely exciting to sign, not for the money, but the final sign that I've definitely made it to the NFL," Griffin said. "It's all business now. We're getting down to the season time.
"Everybody came back in great shape, ready to go and compete. Success is winning football games. How many, I have no idea. I don't set individual goals. It can't just be a one-man show and I'm not going to try and make it a one-man show."
Like Griffin, the Redskins, 11-21 during Mike Shanahan's first two seasons as coach and 21 seasons removed from their last Super Bowl, just want to win.
"This is a similar situation to the one I was in at Baylor," Griffin said.
"The programme had been starved for success for a long time and we ... got the programme back on top. It's a larger scale here in DC, but I'm not going to put unnecessary pressure on my shoulders when I know it's more of a team thing.
"I'm very proud to be a part of this franchise. I just to make sure I try to stay focused, continue to work and act like I'm that undrafted free agent who's trying to make the team."
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Andrew Lloyd Webber Celebrates Three Shows Running on B'way
Fancy-footed felines, a kid band that can roll with surprise visits from music icons and that masked man—they're all currently rocking the Great White Way thanks to seven-time Tony winner Andrew Lloyd Webber. Following the return of his iconic 1983 tuner Cats on July 31, the music maker and producer once again marks three hit musicals simultaneously running on the Main Stem. School of Rock, which is playing at the Winter Garden, nabbed four Tony nominations in 2016, while The Phantom of the Opera continues to make audiences fall in love 28 years later at the Majestic. The stars of Lloyd Webber's works, including Great White Way trailblazer Alex Brightman, angel of music James Barbour and glam pop pussycat Leona Lewis, recently snapped a pic with the mastermind, showcasing his legacy and knack for amplifying diverse and delightful stories on the stage. Here's to you, Andrew Lloyd Webber!


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Oettinger Volkswagen Scirocco - Return To The Wild
New Meets Old
VW might just be getting out of control. Not content with world domination in terms of sales, it seems to be abusing its power. How the hell can it make a stunning car like the Scirocco and then tell the U.S. en masse we'll never get it? Especially when the likes of Oettinger can turn it into this front-drive supercar.
I wasn't even born when the original hit the shelves in 1974, the time of swinging bell bottoms and sexual boundaries, but while the clothes have gone, come again and hopefully now gone forever, the Scirocco remained throughout an ice-cool car and the name retained such power that VW brought it back with a huge fanfare through the IROC concept that morphed into the new Scirocco in 2008.
Once again this is the Golf that gets you laid. Even in R trim it is a good-looking coupe with a turn of speed rather than a real force to be reckoned with. But that's what tuners are for and Oettinger's simple addition of a new turbo, intercooler, and software remap it perfected on the Golf has resulted in a 300-hp front-driver that once again lets the Scirocco punch well above its weight.
Small cars have gotten steadily bigger and more expensive. The Scirocco is the smart executive's car now, rather than the rebellious teenager's, and it wouldn't be caught dead sharing a bong at a music festival. I could kind of see that happening with the bottle green MkII we bought along for the ride.
It's not as cool as the MkI, but at least it shows how far the Scirocco has come. Just look at the older car and you're conjured back to a blocky, square, straight-edged world of Pacman, Casio digital watches, and Brat Pack films. Duran Duran and glam rock topped the charts and long hair and neon seemed reasonable attire for both sexes.
There are some lasting travesties of the '80s. But even with its '80s angles and straight edges, though, the Karmann-produced Scirocco still looks well proportioned and more than a touch stronger than it really is. Inside, it's a mass of square plastic instrument panels and tartan seats that betray its age, and with a turn of the flat key the rasping, coarse, 140-hp powerplant rattles the single-pipe exhaust.
The pedals feel loose and there's an inch or two of dead play in the throttle before the cable takes the strain. Around town it's tough, the steering is heavy, and it doesn't feel quite as sporting as its image suggests. Chasing after the car in front takes a changedown, screaming revs and ramming the loud pedal through the bulkhead.
The brakes, meanwhile, are wooden, unhelpful, and a reminder of how far technology has come. But despite all of this, it's fun, and it takes me back to my teenage years thrashing the guts out of random cheap econobox hatches.
Crash protection, sound insulation and refinement weren't so big in the '80s. The older Scirocco weighs 2,160 pounds, 700 less than the modern car, so you can throw it into bends and feel for the grip transmitted through the skinny tires. It's a return to actual driving.
If it's a car, not a tank, it shouldn't need massive power, and this intimacy, this closeness to the road, just can't happen in today's cars outside of the Caterham class. Old VWs have a massive following for a reason and though the car isn't fast by any credible yardstick, it puts a smile on your face. And it's only the starter; the ice white main course is waiting and warm.
First you just have to drink in the new Scirocco's smooth curves, aided and abetted by Oettinger's stylists. This is modern-day car porn, a stunning basic shape that screams feelgood factor and sporting intent, as well as looking just a little like a Stormtrooper's helmet. It's Gran Turismo 5 next to the MkII's Outrun.
It's a tight, compact shape, yet muscular, and the Oettinger skirts, front and rear lips, together with the 19-inch matte black wheels, add just a finishing touch of muscular definition.
Inside, it's the VW Group at its best: demure, stylish, yet racey. That flat-bottomed wheel sits perfectly in the hands and there's enough color on the screen and dials, as well as the lacquered vent surrounds, to stave off the accusations that it's dull.
The level of equipment onboard makes even '80s science fiction look horribly dated, so Oettinger hasn't bothered with bling. This car is all about the driving experience and a four-cylinder, two-liter turbo engine with 300 hp and 332 lb-ft of torque coursing through the wrong wheels.
This engine is absolutely immense. There was even talk of a 350-hp variant, but common sense prevailed in the end. There's no limited-slip diff here; Oettinger wanted to show what you can do without that expensive addition to the arsenal, but that creates a certain type of drive as this car has almost 50 percent more power than VW planned.
Just floor the throttle and it'll light up the fronts and tug from side to side before finding grip and bolting down the road. Get it right and the Scirocco breaks through the 60-mph mark in 5.6 seconds, 1.6 faster than the standard machine, and it will keep going all the way to 168 mph.
This is a car that will seriously take the fight to supposedly more grown-up sports cars and it's a laugh riot to drive wrong and a real challenge to drive right. Under the hood, it was the usual story of a much larger turbo, and Oettinger can also fit a ram-air system to squeeze a few more horses at the top end. They upgrade the intercooler, too, and fit new intakes and their own exhaust with four exit pipes.
Kept well away from its limits it's also an easy ride, with the manual 'box and a typically light VW clutch making this the perfect town cruiser. It's harder than the Golf, and more sporting; it's that much better looking and more fun. It's almost inconceivable that the Golf outsells its sporting brother, in face.
And then we get to the deserted stretch of country B-road that we can really attack and the dual personality of this modern car shines through in an instant. The Scirocco always had fire burning in its soul and now Oettinger has thrown petrol on it.
It takes self control, measured throttle inputs and an economic style with the wheel to stop the steering and drive fighting with each other and pulling the car off-line. But driven with a hint of mechanical sympathy, the Scirocco hangs on admirably to the corner. It takes thought and technique to get the best from this kind of car, so although it's not rear-drive, this is now every bit the junior sports car.
The German firm dropped the chassis 20mm, so it digs into corners hard and fast. The base Scirocco already sits low to the ground, so this is a serious setup that rattles off big bumps, but pays for itself again and again in each and every bend.
The original Scirocco was one of the great affordable small coupes. It was a wildchild. And though the new car comes with a veneer of respectability, tuners like Oettinger can punch a hole through that veneer with disarming ease. Now VW just needs to stop it abusing its power, so that we can start.
Oettinger Scirocco
Transverse front engine, front-wheel drive
2.0-liter I4, dohc, 16-valve. Oettinger turbocharger and exhaust manifold, intercooler, ECU remap
Six-speed manual
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Oettinger alloys, 8.5x19, 255/35
Front and rear lips, side skirts
Peak Power: 300 hp @ 6000 rpm
Peak Torque: 332 lb-ft @ 3500 rpm
0-60 mph: 5.6 sec.
Top Speed: 168 mph (est.)
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Tennessee Cemetery Records
This entry was originally written by Wendy Bebout Elliott, Ph.D. FUGA for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
A large collection of transcripts of Tennessee cemetery records has been compiled by members of chapters of the DAR (see page 8). Other compilations of cemetery records are those in the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection in the Lawson McGhee Library and in the Tennessee Miscellaneous Family and Cemetery Records collection available at the TSLA and through the FHL. The state library and archives has notebooks containing listings of cemetery records.
County genealogical and historical societies and local citizens have collected, compiled, and published numerous volumes of cemetery records. Other notable sources include:
- Acklen, Jeannette T., et al. Tennessee Records. 2 vols. 1933. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1974. Volume 1 contains tombstone inscriptions.
- Hunkins, Lillian. Tombstone Inscriptions and Marriages of Middle Tennessee. Houston: the author, 1965.
Some cemetery inscriptions are found online and can be located here: Tennessee Cemetery Records


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The influence of the gas industry is endemic in the New York government and media. NY Governor Andrew Cuomo suggested to the gas industry that they deliver nice messaging about how safe and good fracking is to New Yorkers.
Empire Energy Forum, in cahoots with the Independent Petroleum Association of America, are blanketing New York's Southern Tier (the front line fighting fracking in the state) with robo-calls and flyers. Here is a sample of what Big Gas is sending out.
A resident of Madison County has received flyers from Empire Energy, each different. One represents a purported toxicologist and mother of 5 from Maryland, NY (Otsego County). "She claims there is no documented incident of groundwater contamination caused by hydraulic fracturing in NY or anywhere else… Inside is a diagram of drilling and the "precautions" taken by the gas industry to ensure safety. (It is entitled "Shielding ensures safety"). It lists 3 "facts" – (1) NY already has strict oil and gas regs which are being strengthened and that there is community input, (2) the casing and cementing precautions and (3) drilling wastes will be captured in tanks (never being put in ponds and never touching the ground). Reuse and recycling of wastewaters and solid wastes. On the back 50,000 new, good paying jobs, $6M to over $2B in new revenue, reduction in utility bills, vital local support for schools, police and fire protection and public services through oil and gas production revenues. Then it lists NYS Dept of Environmental Conservation, SGEIS and then Empire's web page."
A quick fact check makes it easy to learn of the blatant lies in this mailer. The regulations, which have not been approved, are not strict and use arbitrary setback distances and amounts of dangerous substances allowed. Citizen input is gathered with reluctance and obstruction to ability to report concerns. There are no good safety measures regarding casings; for that fact there are no good safety measures, period. Dumping of vertical fracking waste is done openly by gas companies. Fracking contaminates the water used and there would be little safe reuse of this water.
Occupy the Pipeline is calling for a BAN on HVHF as opposed to accepting a moratorium. A statewide moratorium would leave the matter open. In the US the fossil fuel industry appears to have a free hand in building the infrastructure of their drilling and pipelines and compression and LNG apparatus, even without final approval. An outright ban would prevent this. A moratorium would allow extension of a number of land leases which would soon expire. Some environmental groups are advocating collaboration with the gas industry to have "strong" regulations that would only allow "safe" fracking.
Please be clear. There is no such thing as safe fracking. There are no safe pipelines or compressors. There will be no safe LNG terminals.
Beside explosions, harm from high volume horizontal fracking includes:
Contamination of ground and other water.
Millions of gallon of fresh water used and poisoned by each drilling of a well.
Atmospheric leaks of greenhouse gas methane (much more potent than carbon dioxide) and radioactive
Marcellus Shale radon.
Devastation of land and land value, along with the possibility of a gas company deserting a well and leaving
the land owner and holder of the land lease liable for liens on the gas company.
Destruction of public recreation areas by allowance of HVHF on this land set aside for the use of citizens.3
Exacerbation of climate change and corresponding erratic weather patterns.
The The New York State Assembly passed a two year HVHF moratorium in early March this year. Thanks to fossil fuel lover Senator Tom Libous and his ilk, the NY Senate has stalled the bill in its chamber. The gas industry insists that local town/village fracking bans and moratoriums are illegal because a few of them have been successfully overturned. Remember that these are local initiatives and can't be judged as a group.The gas industry is backing pro-fracking members of the New York State government to push for an easy in for HVHF.
All this while Mark Jacobson and Mark Delucchi of Stanford University have given us a plan for all of New York State to run on renewable energy by 2030. And this sustainable plan would be at a lower cost for the entire state than the $20 billion dollar climate change disaster relief plan (while still retaining addiction to fossil fuels and making worse the climate change disasters the plan is relieving) NYC Mayor Bloomberg just released. Indeed in 2010 Stanford drew up a plan for the entire world to go renewable in 30 years. The cost of renewable energy has decreased over the last decade.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Rene Preval, the only democratically elected president of Haiti to win and complete two terms, has died at age 74.
Current President Jovenel Moise confirmed Preval's death in a Tweet on Friday.
"I learned with sadness the death of former President Rene Preval," Moise said on his Twitter account. "I prostrate myself before the remains of this worthy son of Haiti."
The cause of death was not given. Preval had been treated for prostate cancer in Cuba in 2001.
Preval was elected by a landslide in 1995 as the chosen successor of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and turned power back over to Aristide when he left office five years later after a term marked by political infighting.
His second term, which started in 2006, was marred by the disastrous earthquake of January 12, 2010, which reportedly killed more than 310,000 people and displaced more than 1 million. Many Haitians accused him of a fumbling response to the tragedy.
Preval was born on Jan. 17, 1943, in the town of Marmelade in rural northern Haiti. His father, Claude, was an agronomist who served under President Paul Magloire and fled during the early years of the dictatorship of Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier.
Preval earned an agronomy degree from Gembloux Agricultural University in Belgium and later studied geothermal sciences at the University of Pisa in Italy. In 1970, he moved to New York, where he worked as a waiter and a messenger. Five years later, he returned to Haiti and worked at the National Institute for Mineral Resources, according to an official biography.
In 1988, two years after a popular uprising ousted Duvalier's son, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, Preval returned to Haiti and opened a bakery in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. He supplied bread to an orphanage run by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a Roman Catholic priest who led a movement to oust the younger Duvalier and later became the country's first democratically elected president.
Preval became a leading figure in Aristide's Lavalas political movement, which enjoyed a huge following among the poor and was feared and hated by the tiny community of elites who long dominated the country's economy and government.
Aristide, by now no longer a priest, was elected president in 1990 and appointed Preval to be his prime minister. A military coup ousted Aristide seven months into his term and the two leaders went into exile.
A U.S.-led invasion restored Aristide to power in 1994 and he was allowed to serve the year-plus remaining in his term. Running as Aristide's successor, and with his backing, Preval won 88 percent of the vote in 1995 though only a quarter of eligible voters cast ballots.
Preval's first term was marked by political infighting, with Aristide seen as the power behind the throne. When Preval completed his term in 2001 and transferred power to Aristide, he became Haiti's first democratically elected president to leave office after a full term.
Preval then withdrew from politics and spent his time in Marmelade during Aristide's second term, which ended when he was forced to flee the country following a violent rebellion in 2004. An interim government backed by the United States then took power.
Preval won a second term in 2006 in an election that nearly headed to a runoff. As his supporters demonstrated in the streets, the electoral council recounted ballots and found him to have an outright majority.
Preval's second term was marked by a dramatic spike in kidnappings, gang warfare, riots over soaring global food prices and a series of tropical storms that caused widespread flooding and death, particularly around Gonaives in the north.
Still, Haiti enjoyed a rare political stability. The economy started improving, with growth reaching almost 3 percent in 2009, the second-fastest rate in the hemisphere, according to the International Monetary Fund.
But the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake destroyed much of the capital, including the National Palace and many other government buildings. The government estimated 314,000 people were killed and more than 1.3 million were displaced.
There was widespread public anger at Preval, who made few public appearances after the disaster and was blamed for much of the chaos engulfing the capital. His chosen successor, Jude Celestin, lost in the first round of the 2010 presidential election, which was won later by popular musician Michel Martelly, a former Aristide opponent.
On May 14, 2011, Preval handed over power to Martelly, marking the first transfer of power from a Haitian president to a member of the opposition.
Preval then left politics and lived quietly at his estate in the mountains above Port-au-Prince and in the Miami area, where many Haitian expatriates live.
His survivors include his third wife, Elisabeth "Babette" Delatour, and two adult daughters.


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Crash injuries knock Vande Velde out of Tour de France
Christian Vande Velde is out of the Tour de France because of injuries suffered during a crash in Monday's stage two.
Vande Velde, 34, of Lemont, broke two ribs and had a left eyebrow laceration requiring multiple stitches.
Vande Velde entered the Tour with his preparation hampered by breaking a collarbone in a crash at May's Tour of Italy and cracking two ribs in a June 12 crash at the Tour of Switzerland.
worked really hard to get myself ready to be here again, and I was just
starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel,'' Vande Velde said
in a statement from his team, Garmin-Transitions. ``I'm incredibly
disapppointed to not be starting tomorrow (Tuesday).''
Both times, Vande Velde said, he was unable to avoid riders who went down in front of him. The second left him in a ditch.
``At that point, my eye was bleeding pretty badly, and the pain in my side and back was excruciating.''
Vande Velde nevertheless finished the 121-mile stage, although he lost nearly 10 minutes in the overall standings.
In an interview with the Tribune last week, Vande Velde's words were prophetic.
Unfortunately, Vande Velde was a prophet of his own doom.
Three days before the 97th Tour de France began, the cyclist from Lemont had this to say about what he expected in the race's first week:
"I think there are going to be a lot of time differences in the first week and, if not, there still will be a lot of carnage and stress."
On Monday, Vande Velde was caught in the stage two carnage, which sent five of the nine Garmin-Transitons riders to the rain-slicked roads in the final 20 miles of the stage from Brussels to Spa, Belgium.
All but Vande Velde will be able to continue the race, which has its potentially most dangerous stage Tuesday, with eight miles across cobblestones in northern France.
Vande Velde had dropped to 146th place, nine minutes, 50 seconds behind Sylvain Chavanel of France, who claimed the leader's yellow jersey Monday.
Vande Velde had become Garmin's lead rider after finishing eighth and fourth in the previous two Tours.
``(Christian) has had a tough season,'' Garmin-Transitions CEO Jonathan Vaughters said. ``He has persevered and pushed himself like few other athletes could.''
Crashes in the third stage of successive Tours of Italy had hampered Vande Velde's preparation for the 2009 and 2010 Tours de France. In the interview last week, he also revealed having cracked two ribs in a June 12 crash at the Tour of Switzerland.
"I've never seen so many guys come down in such a short period of time," Garmin-Transitions team director Matt White told cyclingnews.com Monday. "I think half the bunch could have crashed today.''
David Millar, 33, of Great Britain, who stands fourth and is the new Garmin team leader, also crashed twice, suffering a possible broken rib.
``Today was definitely in my top five worst days on a bike, and that's a big (statement) considering the length of my career,'' Millar said.
Tyler Farrar, 26, of Wenatchee, Wash., the Garmin rider who had been considered a contender for the top sprinter's green jersey, also was badly hurt, fracturing his left wrist, spraining his left elbow and having a significant bruise and abrasion.
``I'm determined to start (Tuesday),'' Farrar said.
(Photos: A bloodied Christian Vande Velde (above), a battered Tyler Farrar (below) after crashes in Monday's second stage of the 2010 Tour de France. Bas Czerwinski / Associated Press).


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WHOI Scientists Provide Congressional Testimony
Susan Humphris, chair of the Geology and Geophysics Department, testified May 4, 2006, before the House Committee on Resources, one of several WHOI scientists to appear this spring before members of Congress or their staff.
Humphris urged members to pass a bill establishing a national ocean exploration program within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The bill, sponsored by Rep. H. James Saxton, R-N.J., proposes coordinated efforts by scientists from a variety of disciplines to explore little-known areas of the deep sea.
In her testimony, Humphris said that ocean exploration should be an imperative for the United States in the 21st century. "The alternative—not exploring the oceans—means being satisfied with remaining in the dark about the planet we live on," she said. "It's the equivalent of not sending Lewis and Clark to explore the Louisiana Purchase."
WHOI biologists Laurence Madin and Michael Moore, along with Scott Kraus at the New England Aquarium, gave briefings April 6 before the House Committee on Resources, the House Committee on Science, and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on recent research on the endangered North Atlantic right whale.
On May 1, Robert Detrick, the Institution's vice president for marine facilities and operations, briefed members of the House Appropriations Committee and the House Committee on Science about the Ocean Observatories Initiative to establish a global, integrated network of sea-based observing systems to study the oceans.
On April 3, Jim Luyten (then WHOI vice president, now WHOI's acting president and director) joined panels of scientists from academia and industry in Masssachusetts who briefed U.S. Reps. Barney Franks and Bill Delahunt, both D-Mass., on marine sciences and technology opportunities.
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- Diving into the Right Whale Gene Pool from Oceanus magazine
- To Find Whales, Follow Their Food from Oceanus magazine
- Scientists Gear Up to Launch Ocean Observing Networks from Oceanus magazine


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Barra and Victoria went out on a sight seeing tour to see the city. While sight seeing they revealed their luscious pussies and sweet tits in the back of the car. When they got back, the real action began. It was not long until they were sucking cock and getting their pussies munched on. They got their sweet pussies pounded in sex party fashion. They both got man juice all over their pretty faces.


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DENVER – The Denver Nuggets parlayed a draft-day trade with Chicago into a Bosnian big man that very few knew about until Thursday and a shooting guard they long coveted.
After taking Creighton forward Doug McDermott at No. 11, Denver quickly traded his drafts rights — along with forward Anthony Randolph — to the Bulls for two first-round picks, which the Nuggets used on center Jusuf Nurkic (pronounced you-SOOF noor-KITCH) at No. 16 and Michigan State guard Gary Harris at No. 19. The Nuggets also received a future second-round pick in the deal.
Denver went the international route again with its 41st pick, taking Serbian power forward Nikola Jokic (Knee-coe-lah yo-kitch).
The 19-year-old Nurkic is relatively new to basketball, not even picking up the game until he was around 15. He's been a quick study, though, averaging around 11.2 points, six rebounds and 1.3 blocks in 2013-14 for Cedevita Zagreb in the Croatian League.
He said during a teleconference call that he fully intends to play in the NBA next season. He's also looking forward to meeting Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant because he's "my hero. First time seen an NBA game was Kobe. I like him.
"I'm so happy, so, so, so happy. First time in America. I'm so happy."
At 280 pounds, Nurkic will be tough to push around in the middle. Denver also has Timofey Mozgov of Russia to play center.
Harris was high on the Nuggets' list and rather surprisingly slipped down the board to No. 19. He averaged 16.7 points and 2.7 assists last season for the Spartans.
"I'm just going to come in here and compete, play my hardest and try to do everything I can to earn minutes and help the team win," said Harris, whose mother, Joy, played for the WNBA's Detroit Shock in 2000. "They said I'll have to earn my minutes. That's something I'm OK with."
The arrival of Harris, though, creates a log jam at shooting guard, especially considering the Nuggets reacquired Arron Afflalo earlier in the day in a deal with Orlando for guard Evan Fournier and the No. 56 pick in the draft.
Asked if he figured Denver would pass on him with the acquisition of Afflalo, Harris simply said, "Going into this, I didn't know anything that was going to happen."
Afflalo was a valuable asset when he was with the Nuggets, partly because of his shooting touch but more for his stifling defense. Afflalo wore the powder blue and gold for three season before being traded to Orlando on Aug. 10, 2012, as part of the blockbuster four-team, 12-player deal that also involved Dwight Howard.
The 28-year-old Afflalo averaged a career-high 18.2 points for the Magic last season. He will be reunited in the backcourt with speedy point guard Ty Lawson as they try to restore the luster to the Nuggets.
Denver finished 36-46 in Brian Shaw's inaugural season in charge and missed the postseason for the first time since 2002-03. The team was ravaged by injuries, with Danilo Gallinari missing all season as the versatile forward recovered from his ACL injury. JaVale McGee (leg) played only a handful of games, while J.J. Hickson and Nate Robinson tore ACLs. Wilson Chandler, Lawson and Randolph also were in and out of the lineup.
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(Thanks to John S. Carbone of Alienists Compendium. Dr. Carbone is also the Director of Mental Health Services and Chief of Forensic Psychiatry for the North Carolina prison system.)
On this date in 2001, Willie 'Ervin' Fisher, aged 39, was put to death by lethal injection at North Carolina's Central Prison in Raleigh.
His was a forgettable if lamentable crime were it not for the changes to the state's administrative code that his passing — nay, his post-mortem travels — effected.
Fisher at first invoked that time-tested excuse of addling by drugs and alcohol as exculpation for the slaying of April 2nd 1992.
He admitted from the time of arrest to the murder of Angela Johnson, his on-again, off-again girlfriend, during a domestic altercation that was witnessed by many as it spilled outside to a parking lot for its finale by knife and broken broomstick.
Interestingly, Fisher had no prior felony arrests, and when he was deemed able to have formed the specific intent necessary for first-degree murder, that other time-tested excuse — ineffective counsel — was raised with equal futility. Throughout, however, prison officials described him as a 'model prisoner' on death row, one who received nary a single disciplinary charge in the decade he was incarcerated. And though he later abandoned the pretense of chemical sway and accepted full personal responsibility in a videotaped appeal for clemency to the governor, his pleas fell on deaf ears.
Fisher gave a brief last statement on the evening of his demise, and was pronounced dead after 9:00 p.m. His earthly remains were then transported across town to the medical examiners' office.
But that wasn't the end of the story.
The decedent's sister, Sally Fisher, was at that time the deputy registrar of vital records for the Forsyth County (NC) Health Department, and as such was familiar with then-existing rules pertaining to the handling and transportation of dead bodies. Ms Fisher later recounted that "I just got up that [next] morning and said, 'we might as well [bring] Ervin home'…. I just wanted to be close to him for a while."
So Ms Fisher, her sister, and her niece piled in the latter's SUV and drove to Raleigh at 6:00 a.m. on the 10th to claim the corpse. At first, the medical examiner balked at releasing the body thusly, but Ms. Fisher was versed in statute and code, and after a number of frantic phone calls for guidance, the ME had no choice but to turn Fisher's remains over to his family.
Then, with the help of an employee of the ME's office, the four struggled to wedge Fisher's by-then-stiff corpus into the back of the SUV. Fisher had to be placed recumbent as he wouldn't sit up straight. Ms. Fisher and her sister got in the back seat and talked with the departed while the niece drove the 100 miles west on Interstate 40 to Winston-Salem and the family residence.
Though it was only early March, Fisher's family turned on the air conditioning inside the SUV — to the highest setting.
En route, they stopped at least once for sodas and to make phone calls to family and friends to let them know that Fisher was headed home, and that everyone should come to visit upon his arrival. There was a brief and impromptu reunion of sorts held in the front yard when the travelers reached the family's residence. This was followed by a meandering drive around town to visit old haunts (pun fully intended) before eventually reaching the funeral parlor.
Word traveled fast, and it wasn't many hours before a local television station in Winston-Salem had called the warden at Central Prison for comment regarding the inmate of whom he had overseen the execution mere hours before who was nevertheless now cruising out west with crowds forming to wave at him.
Some said that the family fetched Fisher to save expenses. The Department of Correction, though, was authorized to provide up to $300 to indigents for burial costs if a letter were received from a funeral home … and no such letter had been received. Ms. Fisher herself later said that money had nothing to do with the decision. "To me, it was … closure. For ten years, I was talking to him through glass and couldn't touch him. That was my brother. He was the baby…. Bringing him back home helped me out."
And in what may be Ervin Fisher's lasting legacy, it is now mandated by amended state administrative code that only a hearse from a licensed funeral home can take possession of the dead at the medical examiner's office.
On this day..
- 1892: The People's Grocery Lynchings of Memphis - 2020
- 1803: Jillis Bruggeman, the last executed for sodomy in the Netherlands - 2019
- 2016: Coy Wayne Westbrook - 2018
- 1705: William Pulman, Edward Fuller, and Elizabeth Herman - 2017
- 1524: Klaus Hottinger, sausage radical - 2016
- 1422: Jan Zelivsky, Hussite defenestrator - 2015
- 1981: Steven T. Judy, Hoosier rapist - 2013
- 1784: Anton Joseph Suter, Appenzell politician - 2012
- 1816: Five Boers for the Slachter's Nek Rebellion - 2011
- 1950: Timothy Evans, instead of John Christie - 2010
- 1009: St. Bruno of Querfurt - 2009
- 1944: Emanuel Ringelblum, historian of the Warsaw Ghetto - 2008


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This week I tried something that I had put off for a couple months.I took my first diluted bleach bath.My dermatologist suggested I try taking the bath as a therapy for the skin infections proliferating all over my body.Apparently, the immune suppression effects of my medications (etanercept and cyclosporine) allow for staph skin infections.The unchecked bacteria cause infections in my hair follicles (folliculitis) and exacerbate the eczema.I didn't really believe the doctor until I had some of the sores biopsied and took a course of cephalexin antibiotic for a strep throat infection.The antibiotic cleared the folliculitis, the itchiness of my eczema, and even improved my psoriasis.But just days after finishing my antibiotic course, all those skin irritations returned.After a few weeks I felt as miserable as before dealing with all the new infections and eczema rashes.
Since the immune suppression medications have become my lifeline, I didn't want to stop them just yet.At the same time I felt reluctant to try the dilute bleach bath.Would it work as advertised?Would my skin dry out from the bleach?What if I put too much bleach in?In addition, my wife raised similar concerns.If necessity is the mother of invention, skin misery is the mother of trying new treatments.My apprehensions to trying something new seem to vanish the more uncomfortable I become with my psoriasis.So with a measure of fear and trepidation, I filled up the bathtub with water then added a few ounces of bleach according to the recipe my dermatologist gave me. (Note: if you have any thoughts of trying this at home I would consult with your doctor first for specific instructions.). That fear and trepidation kept me out of the tub for a few more minutes until the water became lukewarm.
When I finally did enter into the bathtub, I found the bath refreshing. I only smelled a faint scent of bleach, much less than at the pool. After the prescribed time I drained the tub. I did put on a thick layer of a cream moisturizer, as instructed by the doctor. That night through the next day the itchiness of my eczema was gone. The folliculitis seemed to recede some as well. My psoriasis didn't improve any, but I hadn't expected that to happen anyway.
After a couple more days I was ready for my next bath as the skin infections symptoms returned. I'll keep trying to take these baths twice a week as instructed to see if the symptoms get better and better over time.
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Grant Morrison's Animal Man is Ken Jennings' (that Jeopardy guy) Best Metacomic [Confessions of a Trivial Mind] [via Fimoculous]
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Grant Morrison's Animal Man is Ken Jennings' (that Jeopardy guy) Best Metacomic [Confessions of a Trivial Mind] [via Fimoculous]
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Marvel June 02009 solicitations include New Avengers #54, battle scene with Dormammu on the cover, "A Sorcerer Supreme is chosen" solicit text, no Doctor Strange seen [Comic Book Resources]
Thorough history of the Bendismantling of Doctor Strange that has gotten us to this point and New Avengers #51 [Sanctum Sanctorum Comix]
Doctor Strange illo by Pyracantha from 80's fanzine [Art By-Products]
"The Dimensions of Greed", Ditko 7-pager from Time Warp #3 (March 01980) [Diversions of the Groovy Kind]
Written by J.M. DeMatteis.
Positive press-hit for June's The Surrogates: Flesh and Bone, sequel to Neilalien fave [Comic Book Resources]
Fantagraphics' Eric Reynolds on Diamond's new higher benchmarks; bad, but the indie singles format was already dead [Robot 6]
Everyone thinks new Diamond distributor higher cutoffs will be "quality control"- until it's their book that doesn't meet the threshold; Diamond has no stake in comics-as-art [Permanent Damage]
Marvel hiring/assembling writing teams/fellowships for its movie slate, to help launch the lesser properties like Doctor Strange [Variety] [Newsarama]
Hollywood too dependent on comic book movies to make them three-hour big-star-lacking gory R-rated affairs with non-holiday release dates like Watchmen [LA Daily News]
Thailand: Firefighter dresses as Spider-Man to coax autistic boy from window ledge [Wired] [BBC]
He kept a costume in his locker.
Dr. Jim Kakalios (The Physics of Superheroes): Gwen Stacy's neck snapped when Spider-Man's webbing stopped her fall [YouTube]
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New Avengers #51 Minidump
Neilalien liked Dormammu's two pages here. The mysterious broadcasting head granting pain and powers- it recalls Dormy's early appearances as Mordo's benefactor. And a non-whiny Dormammu is always good. Love seeing that mystic font again. And the flash of demon-mouthed Hood later on was great. +1.
Doctor Strange with Billy/Wiccan is a wash: It starts strong, confident, up through "young means apologizing", and Neilalien read that line meta-ly about how the superheroic stuff is a distraction to the growth of mystic characters, heh, +1. But then it turns into Doc schubbily confiding to a child about his own cluelessness, -1.
They're trying to make the Sorcerer-Supreme mantle-passing a mysterious mystical process, and keep the new SS a mystery for a story-drama reveal, but does it work? Neilalien isn't enjoying that the mantle seems like an ownerless Green Lantern ring, wandering the Earth searching for the most worthy successor. Too passive; too Chosen One. Exactly "what" is "considering" that "Dr. Doom is too corrupted"? The mantle should be either beaten out of the current holder, or at an Aged Genghis contest, or bequeathed by the current holder to someone specific. Neilalien was expecting the new Sorcerer Supreme to be determined by a villain beating it out of Doc (and there apparently are still some active parts to the process, as Doc dreads people coming after his artifacts), or a good guy/gal coming to rescue the situation by having Doc bequeath it to them- not this game of Clue. Doc traveling to Jennifer Kale to find out if she's the new Sorcerer Supreme is a dud- the mountain doesn't come to Mohammed. And despite the dimension-protecting responsibilities and Vishanti-connection that have been hinted as belonging to the mantle-holder, one obviously doesn't have to be "pure" to hold the mantle (purity to use the Eye is an entirely other matter), if the past and current threats from the many villains, Urthona, Salome, Dr. Doom, etc., ever meant anything. It undermines the entire Zom-poisoning storyline: If Doc's too corrupted to hold the mantle, how in the heck is The Hood less corrupted? In Neilalien's opinion, it would be much better if the precise meme here wasn't so much that Doc is too ~impure~ to be SS, but that he is so ~weakened~ by his impurity (being an aspirer to a pure path and needing purity for his particular artifacts and spells) that opportunists and mantle-coveters see the chance to strike, and good guys/gals become so concerned for the safety of the dimension that they demand it be bequeathed.
Maybe Neilalien's crazy with hope, but does anyone else get the feeling from this issue that Doctor Strange being clueless about who is the next Sorcerer Supreme suggests that the "next" one is actually *Doctor Strange*!? Look in the mirror, dude, you're not broken! Ah, we'll all have a laugh and wonder why we ever actually worried that the status-quo could ever change in superhero comics. Right? Right? Bueller?
Neilalien's main complaint with the issue: The entire 'Spider-Man unmasking'/'Coma Girl was Peter Parker's classmate' thing was six pages of total filler-fluff. An "Avengers" comic book should have an "on screen" battle in it. With a bit more old-school compression, you get that yes-still-important Spidey characterization stuff down to two pages, shave a page off of Doc and Billy in the coffee shop, and show us some crazy comicbook shit with The Hood kicking Doctor Strange's ass in magickal combat.
Posted 28 March 02009 - Permalink
Who Should Play Dr. Strange? [Empire Online]
Photos of 11 (mostly) big-name stars with their pros and cons listed. Thanks Howard!
March MODOK Madness! [Wired blurb]
Grant Morrison interview re: the return of Seaguy; mentions he's working on an Earth 4 book, which is the Charlton characters, including Ditko creations Captain Atom (co- with Joe Gill), Blue Beetle and The Question [Comic Book Resources] [Rokk's Comic Book Revolution]
Wolverine toy has an interestingly placed valve for inflation [ICv2]
Reminds Neilalien of that Batman squirt gun.
Posted 24 March 02009 - Permalink
Examination of the diverse image-to-text ratios in Ditko's later comics [Blog Flume]
Nightcrawler as the next Sorcerer Supreme? [Weekly Crisis]
Snagging old Steve Gerber superhero comics in bulk on the cheap recommended as an alternative to current serial habits [Comics Reporter]
Neilalien seconds. Two related links:
More recommendations: The Baxter paper books are physically aging well; Doctor Strange Classics reprints (of the classic Doc vs. Dormammu story arc by Ditko) (with the Byrne covers) cited [Comic Book Galaxy]
Update: Oh yeah, Neilalien forgot about that Doctor Strange Special Edition Baxter book too, reprinting Doctor Strange #1, 2, 4, 5, with Wrightson cover [Sanctum comment at CBG]
More on breaking the current serial habit: Wait one week and see what you still want to buy [Pipeline]
Marvel updates/tweaks its film release schedule through 02012, spacing them out more [SuperheroFlix]
Neilalien mostly suspects the bad economy, glut avoidance, and the complex schedules of actors. Avengers are the focus. There will certainly be no Dr. Strange movie until way past 02012 then.
Posted 23 March 02009 - Permalink
New Avengers #51 preview [Comic Book Resources]
Doc's looking a lot like Stan Lee. The new Sorcerer Supreme is Stan Lee! New Avengers #51 hits shops this Wednesday.
New news blip that Marvel's indie anthology is moving forward, hopefully with Dash Shaw's Doctor Strange [Robot 6]
Assign a Stan Lee Nickname to modern comics professionals [Paul Cornell]
Looking at this gallery of 32 Marvel first/splash pages from 32 years ago March 01977 at Diversions of the Groovy Kind- it's clear that supercomics have lost some of their magic over the ensuing years. Perhaps they are creator-withering conventions/structures/traps of the medium's old 22-page episodic ways- to start with a newsstand-competing cover with action and speech/text, a bright splash first page, characters nonsensically thinking/yelling out a recap of previous issues, and ending with a cliffhanger- but we haven't replaced that system with anything great yet. It beats the pants off the modern covers of posing mannequins, Marvel comics start today with a black-backgrounded text page, and the cliffhanger is a lost art.
Posted 22 March 02009 - Permalink
Runners, Sean Wang's great sci-fi work and longtime Neilalien fave, is now a webcomic! [Runners Universe] | |
Schulz City: If Frank Miller did Peanuts, by Timothy Lim [Page 1, 2] [via GalleyCat] | |
Liquid Revolver is available: Nazis and mind control by some of the same DC cats behind Doctor Dremo; 68 pages, $6 [Three Crows Press] |
Posted 16 March 02009 - Permalink
How Reed Richards properly stopped a Skrull invasion the first time: use panels from actual Marvel comics and hope they have bad eyesight [Comic Coverage]
Note: As with every year, Neilalien warns his visitors that blogging content amounts will probably be negatively impacted by March Madness. (The blogging content quality would be negatively impacted too, if it could go any lower! [rim shot])
Posted 15 March 02009 - Permalink
The Official Creebobby Comics Archetype Times Table [via Waxy]
Saturday Morning Watchmen [YouTube]
Posted 13 March 02009 - Permalink
Top 10: Season Two #4, out this week, includes a Strange-Gun that shoots Gamma-Hoggoth blasts
Also a great easter-egg of a face-melty Arnold Toht from Indiana Jones. Top 10 is one of Neilalien's fave comics worlds (he enjoyed Smax, The Forty-Niners, Farthest Precinct, etc., too).
Redux: Doctor Strange in Top 10 (does Neilalien have them all?):
Above: Top 10 #11 consulting with Dr. Fate (and presumably Dr. Doom re: facial repair?).
Above: Top 10 and the Farthest Precinct #4, doing security at the station house with a Sargon the Sorcerer type.
Posted 12 March 02009 - Permalink
Marvel.com does its own official "who will be the next Sorcerer Supreme odds" article [Marvel.com]
Redux: [Sanctum's odds] [Bendis & Brevoort banter about a list of characters]
Dr. Doom's chances 90%, Scarlet Witch's chances 95%, Clea's chances 95% [The Marvel/DC Blog]
Bendis will not choose any character that makes the most sense, he will choose the character that's the most interesting to him, at the readers' peril [Comics Should Be Good]
That means it will be Luke Cage 34%, Spider-Woman 33%, Scarlet Witch 33%.
Neilalien's cynical dread-filled thinking tonight, but yearning and able to be pleasantly surprised:
New Avengers #51 on sale 25 March. We shall see.
Bought today: Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #9, featuring Doctor Strange.
Posted 11 March 02009 - Permalink
That time Ditko covered Marvel Triple Action #47, a reprint of Avengers #54, with a cover reversing the original's POV [Seduction of the Indifferent]
Posted 10 March 02009 - Permalink
Ditko Once More: new Ditko comics out later this year? [Ditko Comics]
Marvel Sneak Peek (2 little pages): New Avengers #51 [Major Spoilers]
Boycott Watchmen Movie Facebook Group
Wait a Week to Watch the Watchmen Facebook Group
A show of support for Alan Moore.
He's Just Not That Into Your Income: Cartoonist re: the expectations people have that his cartoons are free-of-charge [Mike Lynch Cartoons]
There was a rumor that Neilalien fave and Marvel's best book Captain Britain and MI:13 was to be cancelled? You deny me Freshmaker?! [Newsarama]
Marvel Q4 02008 numbers released; publishing revenues increased 9.2%, from $30.3 million in Q4 02007 to $33.1 million; Iron Man provides boatload of money [Forbes.com] [ICv2]
After some hubbub, Samuel L. Jackson has been signed to play Nick Fury in up to nine Marvel films! [Wired] [ICv2]
That's a lot of Royales with cheese.
Posted 3 March 02009 - Permalink
Dr. Strange is as powerful as the God he invokes; art by Mark Grambau [Mark's Evil Twin] [Grambau superhero art fun] [super-via Comics Reporter with a recent link to Grambau, Johnny Bacardi, and ADDTF]
Secret Lives of Comic Store Employees [Wired] [super-via all]
Adorable Calvin, Hobbes and Susie, grown-up and manga style [colored by sora1589 on DeviantART] [original by nami86 on DeviantART] [via Oliver Willis] [Update: more adult Calvin & Hobbes at Gerry Caravan's]
Call For Papers: Papers needed for the "Understanding Superheroes: An Interdisciplinary Conference" being held at the University of Oregon in Eugene on 23-24 October 02009 [Thought Balloonists]
Popular comics spot Scans_Daily shuttered by LiveJournal for posting copyrighted material [Firefox News] [via LinkMachineGo] [Digital Strips] [con and pro: BeaucoupKevin; Comics Worth Reading] [folks, please stop calling for the bodily harm of Peter David]
Updates: [Mightygodking] [Airings LJ] [really good Robot 6] [Johnny Bacardi Show]
Update: Interview: The scans_daily moderators [ComicMix]
If Scans_Daily evolved from 'fair-use/sampling of older comics' to 'posting new comics in their entirety', with a community entitledly whiningly expecting copyright violation without creator compensation, that's not a very defensible, excusable, pretty or legal spot to be in. As any creator or blogger knows, getting one's content and lunches stolen or control lost sucks. But looking at that site, there was definitely 1,000 times more 'people being exposed to and checking out things that they wouldn't have bought or even known about anyway in a democratic passionate word-of-mouth early-adopter community with a miniscule chance that they might have bought after checking it out' than 'lost sales' going on there. Our modern internet world is increasingly considering the $4 22-page dead-tree corporately-gatekept comic book squirreled away unadvertised in Direct Market boutiques, like the payola'd $20 music CD of mostly filler, to be pricing/promotion/distribution/format damage to be routed around. The creators, publishers and commentators who see more potential than legions of criminals here will be labeled as the ones who 'get it' by the hip Boing-Boing Interneterati. Neilalien mostly agrees- but will those creators be able to pay bills? We shall see. We hope so. The current problems, promise and paradoxes of piracy, technology, copyright and distribution, and changes in our businesses, just haven't been fully grokked and solved yet. Until they are, the cease-and-desist, the terms-of-service violation, etc., is a whack-a-mole game (as evidenced by Scans_Daily's already new URL). Comics, what/where is your iTunes equivalent?
The Offenders first appearance wasn't the recent Hulk #10: Kerry Callen's youthful Offenders art in 01981's Amazing Heroes #4 [Kerry Callen's Blog] [thanks Howard!]
Neilalien was about to suggest that everyone turn their brains off and have the fun blast he did with Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness' Hulk #10- but Sanctum's Doctor-Strange brain never stops: Calling foul re: the masked version of Doctor Strange interacting with Clea [Sanctum Sanctorum Comix]
Posted 1 March 02009 - Permalink
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We celebrated Monday when House Majority Leader Eric Cantor effectively signaled the death of SOPA, the Stopping Online Piracy Act. Cantor said the Internet censorship bill would not see a vote until there was consensus on the matter. As long as Darrell Issa, Justin Amash, and Jason Chaffetz are on the case there will be no consensus on sweeping Internet censorship, so Cantor's position basically kills SOPA this Congress.
This was a well earned victory for conservatives, and we owe the above allies thanks for sticking up for our values against formidable opposition. Barack Obama refused to pledge a SOPA veto even in the face of a massive petition from his supporters. Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith sponsored the bill, and notable tech leaders like Marsha Blackburn co-sponsored it. Well-funded groups like AFL-CIO, MPAA, and RIAA all lined up behind it.
It took everything we had to be heard on this. Our movement could hold nothing back. Erick Erickson himself had to threaten a primary challenge to Blackburn, and he was right to do it. But we got our way, and we should be glad.
But today, as SOPA protests go on across the Internet, we should be aware that there are a few lingering pockets of resistance, and be mindful of them.
It all goes back to May 2011. RedState started work early against a new bill, called PROTECT IP (now being called PIPA in parallel with SOPA). Even as the administration was ramming Net Neutrality Internet regulation through the FCC, the RedState community knew that Net Neutrality wasn't just a threat in itself, but it was also a stepping stone to bigger, more intrusive Internet controls.
It was true, too. Net Neutrality passed, and no matter how loudly we cried out, no matter how hard Kay Bailey Hutchison pleaded for the Senate to take up the Net Neutrality repeal that House Republicans passed, it remained. And with the Internet already regulated, why not try for more?
So Patrick Leahy's PROTECT IP bill grew in support, gaining shocking co-sponsors like Marco Rubio. Why a TEA Party Senator would want to give dictatorial Internet censorship powers to Eric Holder, I have no idea. If not for Ron Wyden's obstruction of the bill, it might have been worse yet.
But Wyden did block the bill, and so PROTECT IP came to the House under the name of SOPA. Leahy's idea found a Republican champion in Lamar Smith, and the bill backed by disgraced former Senator Chris Dodd's MPAA brought in even more disappointing Republican sponsors. Marsha Blackburn has been a hero against Internet regulation, but she for some reason cosponsored SOPA.
We at RedState complained and complained, for months highlighting this bill and its dangers. But as with Net Neutrality, allies were few and far between. But slowly, we grew the coalition. Erick Erickson joined my primary threats, and Darrell Issa put together a crack team of liberty-loving Republicans to make some noise. Together we made people realize how bad this bill really was.
Now, suddenly, the whole Internet was screaming about SOPA. People who mocked and scorned us for months suddenly were rushing to be on our side. However unlike us, they put no pressure on their own side to do right on SOPA and PROTECT IP. Barack Obama, despite making no promise to veto SOPA, endures no criticism. Senate Democrats are left free of consequences to force a vote on PROTECT IP. Judiciary Ranking Member John Conyers and other House Democrats vote for SOPA's censorship and are free of public censure.
Conyers in fact laughably said "The notion that this bill threatens freedom of information is insupportable," but what has the left done? They free ride on our primary threats by joining in on our attacks on Lamar Smith, whose picture is prominent in the Wikipedia page for SOPA. But today we continue to name and shame Republicans like Smith, Rubio, and Blackburn for their roles in supporting SOPA and PROTECT IP.
We stand and demand electoral consequences for censoring the Internet. That takes time, effort, and money, and I'm glad our community is a coalition of the willing.
Today I thank the RedState community for working, for joining our effort and applying the pressure it took to get Eric Cantor to come down on SOPA. I'm glad RedState's community is here, because if Cantor ever backslides and SOPA becomes a risk to pass, we'll need a full team effort once again.
We'll need action if SOPA starts to move again. RedState is online today not because we support SOPA, but because somebody had to do the heavy lifting to defeat SOPA, and that's what we were part of. Thank you, RedStaters, for getting that done. Thank you Darrell Issa, Justin Amash, Jason Chaffetz, and other House members for getting this done. Thank you Orrin Hatch and other Senate Republicans for demanding against the odds that Harry Reid should stop his insistence on jamming PROTECT IP through the Senate.
But most of all thank you, RedStaters, for showing up for small government and an open Internet even when it's not the cool thing to do so.


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Yalta European Strategy
Yalta European Strategy
Yalta European Strategy (YES) is a leading forum for discussing Ukraine's European future and global context. YES fosters new ideas. It connects Ukraine to international partners, supports forces for change in the country, and builds networks of supporters for a new Ukraine worldwide.
For 18 years, YES has initiated dialog between leaders from Ukraine, the EU, the US and beyond. Within Ukraine, it provides a platform for the government and opposition. It brings together leaders from politics, business, media, civil society and the expert community.
YES began in 2004, when Victor Pinchuk invited some 30 European leaders to debate the future of Ukraine and the EU at the first Annual Meeting.
YES Annual Meeting took place at the symbolic Livadia Palace in Yalta from 2004 to 2013. The location where Europe was divided in 1945 thus became the venue for uniting a wider Europe. After the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, the YES Annual Meeting moved to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
YES meetings have brought together heads of state and government such as Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Bill Clinton, Dalia Grybauskaitė, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Bronisław Komorowski, Mario Monti, Shimon Peres and Donald Trump. Among the speakers were also heads of international organizations like Kofi Annan, José Manuel Barroso, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Ronald Noble, James Wolfensohn, Lamberto Zannier and Robert Zoellick. Senior officials, such as Hillary Clinton, Valdis Dombrovskis, Robert Gates, Johannes Hahn, Chrystia Freeland, Victoria Nuland, Condoleezza Rice and Martin Schulz, have spoken at the meetings. In addition, thinkers and social leaders like Richard Branson, German Gref, Richard Haass, Niall Ferguson, Alexei Kudrin, Arthur Laffer, Yurii Milner, Larry Summers, Nouriel Roubini and Strobe Talbott have been among the panelists. Presidents and Prime Ministers of Ukraine, as well as Ukraine's political, business and social leaders, regularly speak at the meetings.
The YES board includes Aleksander Kwaśniewski,President of Poland (1995-2005), Chairman of the YES Board; Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden (2006-2014), Prime Minister of Sweden (1991-1994); Pat Cox, President of the European Parliament (2002-2004), Member of the European Parliament (1989-2004); Stephane Fouks, Vice President of Havas Group, Executive Co-Chairman of Havas Worldwide; Wolfgang Ischinger, Ambassador, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Senior Professor, Hertie School of Governance; Victor Pinchuk,Founder and Member of the Board, YES and Founder of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and EastOne group; Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Founder of Rasmussen Global, Secretary General of NATO (2009-2014), Prime Minister of Denmark (2001-2009); and Javier Solana, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1995-1999), High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union (1999-2009), distinguished fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings Institution.


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Images from the visible light camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, combined with images from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, suggest melting snow is the likely cause of the numerous eroded gullies first documented on Mars in 2000 by Global Surveyor.
The now-famous martian gullies were created by trickling water from melting snow packs, not underground springs or pressurized flows, as had been previously suggested, argues Dr. Philip Christensen, the principal investigator for Odyssey's camera system and a professor from Arizona State University in Tempe. He proposes gullies are carved by water melting and flowing beneath snow packs, where it is sheltered from rapid evaporation in the planet's thin atmosphere. His paper is in the electronic February 19 issue of Nature.
Looking at an image of an impact crater in the southern mid-latitudes of Mars, Christensen noted eroded gullies on the crater's cold, pole-facing northern wall and immediately next to them a section of what he calls "pasted-on terrain." Such unique terrain represents a smooth deposit of material that Mars researchers have concluded is "volatile" (composed of materials that evaporate in the thin Mars atmosphere), because it characteristically occurs only in the coldest, most sheltered areas. The most likely composition of this slowly evaporating material is snow. Christensen suspected a special relationship between the gullies and the snow.
"The Odyssey image shows a crater on the pole-facing side has this 'pasted-on' terrain, and as you come around to the west there are all these gullies," said Christensen. "I saw it and said 'Ah-ha!' It looks for all the world like these gullies are being exposed as this terrain is being removed through melting and evaporation."
Eroded gullies on martian crater walls and cliff sides were first observed in images taken by Mars Global Surveyor in 2000. There have been other scientific theories offered to explain gully formation on Mars, including seeps of ground water, pressurized flows of ground water (or carbon dioxide), and mudflows caused by collapsing permafrost deposits, but no explanation to date has been universally accepted. The scientific community has remained puzzled, yet has been eagerly pursuing various possibilities.
"The gullies are very young," Christensen said. "That's always bothered me, because how is it that Mars has groundwater close enough to the surface to form these gullies, and yet the water has stuck around for billions of years? Second, you have craters with rims that are raised, and the gullies go almost to the crest of the rim. If it's a leaking subsurface aquifer, there's not much subsurface up there. And, finally, why do they occur preferentially on the cold face of the slope at mid-latitudes? If it's melting groundwater causing the flow, that's the coldest place, and the least likely place for that to happen."
Christensen points out that finding water erosion under melting snow deposits answers many of these problems, "Snow on Mars is most likely to accumulate on the pole-facing slopes, the coldest areas. It accumulates and drapes the landscape in these areas during one climate period, and then it melts during a warmer one. Melting begins first in the most exposed area right at the crest of the ridge. This explains why gullies start so high up." Once he started to think about snow, Christensen began finding a large number of other images showing a similar relationship between "pasted on" snow deposits and gullies in the high resolution images taken by the camera on Global Surveyor. Yet it was the unique mid-range resolution of the visible light camera in Mars Odyssey's thermal emission imaging system that was critical for the insight, because of its wide field of view.
"It was almost like finding a Rosetta Stone. The basic idea comes out of having a regional view, which Odyssey's camera system gives. It's a kind of you-can't-see-the forest-for-the-trees problem. An Odyssey image made it all suddenly click, because the resolution was high enough to identify these features and yet low enough to show their relationship to each other in the landscape," he said.
"Christensen's new hypothesis was made possible by NASA's tandem of science orbiters currently laying the groundwork for locating the most interesting areas for future surface exploration by roving laboratories, such as the Mars Exploration Rovers, scheduled for launch in May and June of this year," said Dr. Jim Garvin, NASA's lead scientist for Mars Exploration in Washington, D.C.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the Mars Exploration Program for NASA's Office of Space Science in Washington, D.C.
The new images are available online at http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04408 and http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04409 . More information about the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission is available on the Internet at http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/ .
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- Nigerian cartoon "Bino and Fino" aims to teach children about African history and culture
- Creator Adamu Waziri says African children watch only imported cartoons
- "We want to show a couple of kids in a middle class life," he says
- It is currently being shown on Sky TV in the UK
(CNN) -- Move over Disney -- a Nigerian animator has produced an educational cartoon to teach youngsters about African culture.
Tired of African children watching only imported cartoons that didn't reflect their lives, Nigerian animator Adamu Waziri decided to do something about it.
His creation is "Bino and Fino," a cartoon aimed at three to five year olds, about a brother and sister who live with their grandparents in an unnamed African city.
"I want to create a brand that's as good as Dora the Explorer, Charlie and Lola, quality wise, made in Nigeria, that is educational, and also shows positive aspects of Nigerian/African culture, not just to Nigerian or African kids but to kids everywhere," says Waziri.
The pilot episode celebrated Nigeria's Independence Day and looked at the issue of colonialism. The cartoon has also had segments teaching the numbers one to 10 in the Nigerian Igbo and Yoruba languages.
He adds that he wants the program to "teach kids and show that the stuff you see on TV of starving people isn't the only thing (in Africa) -- you have a middle class here who have the same aspirations as everybody else."
See also: Meet the Afropolitans
Bino and Fino isn't the only children's cartoon produced in Africa. "Tinga Tinga Tales," for example, is made in Kenya for the BBC, while "Jungle Beat" is produced in South Africa and has been shown internationally. But both cartoons, like many set in Africa, tell stories about the continent's exotic animals. Waziri was determined to do something different.
"I said I'm not going do African folk tales, animals -- that's what you get in (animated movie) 'Madagascar' -- we don't want to do that," he says.
"We want to show a couple of kids in a middle class life, which I know isn't the reality of all the kids in Africa, but let's show that reality -- the reality of people using laptops, phones, going to school, doing their daily business -- no talking ants, no dancing 'jinga jinga' music -- just a cartoon of life."
Two full-length "Bino and Fino" episodes have been shown on a channel on Sky TV in the UK, where Waziri says it has been well received. The next step is to attract the funding and sponsors needed to get the cartoon aired in Nigeria.
Adamu Waziri, creator of "Bino to Fino"
It takes Waziri and his core team of four a month and a half to produce a single episode of Bino and Fino, which is just eight minutes of animation. His says the slow turnaround is off-putting for sponsors in Nigeria, where feature-length Nollywood movies are often produced in a matter of weeks.
See also: Nigerian blockbusters for internet generation
Waziri adds that when it comes to entertainment, some Nigerians have a mindset of "West is best," but he is determined to change people's minds by showing it's possible to make a credible homegrown alternative to imported programs.
He believes that it's not enough for Africans to complain of being underrepresented in foreign cartoons, or misrepresented by international media -- they must also do something about it.
"People complain that Africa is not represented well in the media," says Waziri. "I understand that, but my point is Nigeria and other parts of Africa aren't poor, you have businessmen, the infrastructure, the ability to link up and make studios, finance it and sponsor it and make the market -- stop waiting for Disney to do it, do it yourself."